School architecture; a handy manual for the use of architects and school authorities (1910) (14595091640)

Identifier: schoolarchitectu00bruc (find matches)
Title: School architecture; a handy manual for the use of architects and school authorities
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Bruce, William George, 1856-1949 Bruce, William Conrad, 1882- Bruce, Frank Milton, 1885- (from old catalog)
Subjects: School buildings
Publisher: Milwaukee, Johnson service company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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stbe equipped with good furniture, including suffi-cient benches, a teachers desk and chair, demon-stration table and rack and stools for pupils.The teacher ought to be supplied with a closetsufficiently large to warrant the storage of com-pleted work. A good bookcase, wardrobes forthe average number of pupils who will use theroom in one session, a stock room with goodshelving, and work racks to equal the numberof benches will complete the equipment. Theroom itself may resemble a classroom in thatceilings should be tinted, floors may be made ofwood, etc. The work shop idea may be readilyconveyed by glazed brick run to the height ofblackboards and replacing the ordinary wains-coting. In large manual training or technical highschools lecture rooms like the natural sciencelecture rooms may be added. Museum.—Several of the largest high schoolsof the country have lately provided for museums.Suitable cases in a properly arranged room mustbe supplied. The specimens are usually gathered 125
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126 School Architecture by teacher and pupil and sometimes only tem-porarily saved. Playrooms.—It is necessary that everyschool be provided with well lighted and amplyventilated playrooms, to be used during incle-ment weather. Basements with windows on twosides are most practical. Asphalt floors, cementor burlap wainscoted walls of a light shade andround corners wherever possible are desirable.Seats should be provided along walls. Heat maybe supplied from coils suspended below the ceil-ing, though the temperature ought never exceed60 degrees Fahrenheit. Principals Room.—The principal, the visit-ing public and the pupils must all be consideredin the placing of this room. Practice has it toplace the principals room in a three-story build-ing on the second floor, immediately adjoininga staircase. In a two-story building, the first isdesirable. The principals room should be largeand roomy, complete in equipment, contain alavatory, emergency case, a speaking tube or tele-phone to the j